Synthetic Dreams

[Dryson]

I took a section of a photo that I took a Vega through my telescope last October and played around with in in GIMP 2.8. I wish I would have written the steps down that I used to edit this photo, but like I said I was messing around with it.

I do remember using the Blur/Sharpen tool as well as the Emboss filter.

This is the original section from the photo.

This is the edited image. I call the, The Drift

This is the part of The Drift called Synth Dreams - Synth and Orchid that I am working on.

 

[LAFR]

Alrighty then.

 

[Cyfa]

Oh, I see them! Pareidolia can be a wonderful tool, especially in art like this.
The overwhelming image I see in The Drift is that its a stone cliff face with winding and precarious steps carved into it, leading up from the bottom right to an overgrown cave (which you've identified as the Synth) with some sort of flying creature (the Orchid) swooping down.
However, since you've depicted the Synth and the Orchid, I can see them too. I'm looking forward to seeing how you progress with this

 

[Michael]

Alrighty then.

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[MisterD]

I can see a breen who feels imprisoned in his suit. He is dreaming of being a changeling, wich is in the middle of transforming from a women in a yellow dress into butterfly.

Maybe changelings sometimes dream of living like breen too? Who knows...

 

[LAFR]

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Understood.

I will, therefore, change my tune.

The eye will see what the eye wishes to see.

And this is tripe.

 

[Michael]

Understood.

I will, therefore, change my tune.

The eye will see what the eye wishes to see.

And this is tripe.

How very grown-up of you.

Warning for trolling. Comments to PM.

 

[Psion]

Understood.

I will, therefore, change my tune.

The eye will see what the eye wishes to see.

And this is tripe.

No, actually it isn't. What Dryson is doing is working on a tool that could be a handy step in the creative process. Now most of us who post work in these parts show art that's further along in that creative process. And we often eschew anything random. Dryson is exploring random image fields looking for patterns that provoke ideas.

There's a program called Alchemy that works as such an artistic exploration tool. I used it briefly several years ago, and you can almost hear Bob Ross whispering in your ear as a series of barely controllable "happy accidents" spill out across your canvas. Soon you start to see starships and robots and dinosaurs and landscapes and ... and ... and all kinds of things you would never have put down intentionally. And that's the value of bringing in a tool like this. To find the stuff you never even thought of! Then you take that into a more traditional paint program for cleanup.

This is where Dryson could use some work and encouragement. He's got the beginning down, but no one else sees the images he does. I'd like to see him drag the picture out of the noise and finish it.

 

[Santaman]

So he's kinda like someone who makes a statue then? Chipping away everything that's not part of the subject.

 

[Psion]

So he's kinda like someone who makes a statue then? Chipping away everything that's not part of the subject.

EXACTLY the image I had in mind when I posted!

Stay away from me, dude. You scare me!

 

[Donnewtype]

Those images are just fantastic Dryson. Now if I follow what you did, you took a photo in GIMP and turned that phot into a kaleidoscope of melting contour maps that the more you process, the deeper you fall into the contour maps; discovering more details that you hadn't seen before? I'm going to have to look into this Alchemy program. Inspiration is always just around the corner, you just have to be standing at the right corner at the right time.

 

[Dryson]

Those images are just fantastic Dryson. Now if I follow what you did, you took a photo in GIMP and turned that phot into a kaleidoscope of melting contour maps that the more you process, the deeper you fall into the contour maps; discovering more details that you hadn't seen before? I'm going to have to look into this Alchemy program. Inspiration is always just around the corner, you just have to be standing at the right corner at the right time.

No what I did was I used the Blur Sharpen Tool in GIMP. Tools/Paint Tools/ Blur Sharpen / Sharpen. The settings have to be just exact, especially in the new GIMP version. In the new version there seems to be a depth to the sharpen tool that won't allow the tool to sharpen all of the pixels down to the bottom of the image.

Once you achieve the correct image that you are going for, which there could nearly an infinite number of outcomes based on the settings, you then use the Emboss filter. Adjust the settings so that the lines align to make a clear image.

I'm not very good at Blender, but anyone would like they could model the Synth in the cloak and the Orchid.

 

[Dryson]

I can see a breen who feels imprisoned in his suit. He is dreaming of being a changeling, wich is in the middle of transforming from a women in a yellow dress into butterfly.

Maybe changelings sometimes dream of living like breen too? Who knows...

Lol, not even wrong.

Data's Raven

I found some hearts in the Unseen Light of a photo I took of Aldebaran a few nights ago....Its around us. It just takes faith. I painted this piece using filaments from the photo of Aldebaran. Unseen Light is light that we can't see but is still there, around us all of the time.

The light that went into this painting took 65 years at the speed of light to reach Earth. Its still amazing that when I took the photo that the filaments appearing in the photo are just as they were 65 years ago when they were created by Aldebaran.

"Run, run as fast as you can child,
Run towards the light,
Like the raven in the wind,
Run, run as fast as you can child,
Like the Phoenix, on her maiden flight,
Run, run as fast as you can child.
Run, run as fast as the light."

 

[DEWLine]

It's not something I considered as an option, but you've discovered a way to find art in it. Keep going!

 

[fireproof78]

This is the edited image. I call the, The Drift

Reminds me of art a friend of mine did in college. Love it.